I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

If you want to be free be free

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.